The Flop House: Episode #155 - Last Vegas

[0:00] It's grumpy old hangover as we discuss the geriatric comedy, Last Vegas.

[0:31] Hey everyone, and welcome to The Flophouse. I'm Dan McCoy.

[0:35] And this is Stuart Wellington.

[0:37] And over here, Elliot Kalin.

[0:40] And we are The Flophouse.

[0:43] Consisting of Dan McCoy, Elliot Kalin, and Stuart Wellington as The Flophouse.

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[1:00] Wait, no, not that.

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[1:03] Ignore that last part.

[1:04] Wow.

[1:05] Forget it. Forget it, guys.

[1:06] The least professional podcast in podcast-dom.

[1:10] So hopefully you fast forward a little bit.

[1:12] So what do we do in this podcast, Dan?

[1:14] We watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.

[1:16] Let me just say that because you screw it up every time.

[1:18] Let me just say, we watch a podcast and then we talk about a movie.

[1:21] We're taping this episode the day before my birthday.

[1:25] Oh, wow.

[1:26] That's right.

[1:27] And I don't see any presents anywhere.

[1:29] Our presence is our presence.

[1:31] I assume that they're still on order.

[1:34] So it's all right. You still have a day.

[1:37] I got a shipping notification from adamandeve.com.

[1:41] Thanks.

[1:44] Your subscription to White's Butts DVDs.

[1:48] Is it something that you'll both enjoy?

[1:50] Wait, me and you?

[1:52] Yeah, probably.

[1:53] Are we going to watch them together?

[1:55] The joke that launched 1,000 short stories sent to us.

[1:59] Well, Dan, if it counts, I haven't had a lot of time to get out of the house,

[2:04] but I've been making something for you out of the materials at hand.

[2:06] So I hope you enjoy the world's largest collection of baby poop.

[2:12] Well, I mean, anything that gets me in the Guinness Book.

[2:15] He's a good eater, your son, huh?

[2:17] Yes. He's an even better pooper.

[2:19] Or is he like one of those House of Leaves?

[2:21] If he's pooping more than he's eating, then that is a bad sign.

[2:24] Well, right now the theory is that somewhere in his intestine is a portal to the central tank in another universe.

[2:32] Because a lot of, like, pieces of metal,

[2:36] the kind of stuff you saw in the Dianoga trash compactor scene in Star Wars.

[2:41] There's a lot of that in his diaper.

[2:43] You're saying he's a goat.

[2:44] He's some sort of Iron Man.

[2:46] Well, certainly his guts, yeah.

[2:49] But anyway, as you said, this is a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.

[2:53] Tonight we watched a movie called Last Vegas.

[2:58] The sequel to?

[2:59] Las Vegas.

[3:00] No.

[3:01] Penultimate Vegas.

[3:04] This is not a sequel, but it's kind of a ripoff of the Hangover movies.

[3:08] And Sandlot.

[3:09] I mean, in that it's about a bachelor party that occurs in Las Vegas.

[3:13] You take a little bit of the Sandlot, or stand by me, just a little bit, age it a lot,

[3:18] throw a dash of Hangover in there and a little bit of, like, what, Bucket List?

[3:21] Yeah.

[3:22] And you've got Last Vegas.

[3:23] It's your basic grumpy old Vegas.

[3:27] That's a good one. That's a better title.

[3:28] This is the second movie in the past four movies that features Robert De Niro in a comedic role.

[3:37] Yeah.

[3:38] So it's got that going for it.

[3:39] It does not have that going for it.

[3:42] Although I will say this, and let's just get this right off the bat.

[3:44] Let's compliment this movie.

[3:45] Okay.

[3:46] Let's say a nice thing.

[3:47] The four stars of this movie, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, and Kevin Kline.

[3:52] Hollywood royalty.

[3:53] Hollywood royalty in that Michael Douglas is the Duke of Bel-Air.

[3:57] Morgan Freeman is the Viscount of Beverly Hills, let's say.

[4:02] Sure.

[4:03] Kevin Kline is, of course, the King of Kong.

[4:05] And did I mention Robert De Niro is one of the barges?

[4:10] Yes.

[4:11] As himself.

[4:13] So aside from Michael Douglas, who I can take or leave, they—

[4:18] At this point, I would more likely take or leave Robert De Niro.

[4:21] I think Robert De Niro—

[4:22] I'd take them both, man. They're great.

[4:24] I say Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman really charismat up the joint.

[4:28] Yeah.

[4:29] They are the high points of the movie.

[4:30] I will say that this is a funnier role for Robert De Niro than Grudge Match was,

[4:34] if only because he's not the energetic guy.

[4:37] He is the laconic guy, which is what he does normally anyway.

[4:41] He's not particularly good at it, but there are a few moments where it's like,

[4:44] oh, Robert De Niro just doing that Robert De Niro face he does,

[4:47] where he's like, meh, meh, works for the moment.

[4:50] It's me, Robert De Niro, meh.

[4:51] But if this was just Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman, better movie.

[4:55] Yeah.

[4:56] No, they are pretty delightful in it, I got to say, for a movie that's not that very good.

[5:00] It's a stamp over a movie that has almost no writing,

[5:03] and as Stuart, I think, said, barely is a movie.

[5:06] But it's more a series of vacation slides of Las Vegas.

[5:10] It's a rough assemblage of scenes organized around the theme of old people in Las Vegas.

[5:17] It does kind of feel like Dennis Hopper's last movie type thing,

[5:21] where they sent a director to Las Vegas with these guys.

[5:25] They shot like 400 hours of footage and then disappeared.

[5:28] And the studio had to reclaim what was left and just cut a movie out of it.

[5:31] And there's just scenes that don't go anywhere, scenes that go on for too long,

[5:35] scenes that seem to stop in the midst of a joke.

[5:38] And any time a character laughs at something another character said,

[5:41] they're like, great, end this scene, let's get out of here.

[5:44] Yeah, get out on a laugh.

[5:45] I don't think that means when the character is laughing.

[5:47] Get out on a laugh, I said.

[5:50] All right.

[5:51] But should we talk about the plot?

[5:53] Yeah, why not?

[5:54] I mean, if you can.

[5:56] We're introduced to these.

[5:57] It's 1950-100, let's say, in Flatbush Boulevard.

[6:02] And honestly, is there any reason for this movie to start out in the past?

[6:07] Like, having seen the whole movie now.

[6:09] We have to realize that they were kids once.

[6:11] It shows that these guys have been kids.

[6:12] And they didn't spring forth from some wrinkled womb.

[6:15] Wrinkled themselves like horrible raisin men.

[6:18] Like California raisins?

[6:20] Aside from that.

[6:21] No, those are great raisin men, dude.

[6:23] Have some fucking respect.

[6:25] You're saying that old people are born from old women, is what you're saying?

[6:28] Well, in this case, they could be.

[6:29] We don't know.

[6:30] But look what they show us.

[6:31] If an old woman gave birth to a baby, it would come out old like a Benjamin Button?

[6:34] Yeah.

[6:35] Old is a genetic trait.

[6:37] You're saying they did not spring untimely from their mother's womb.

[6:40] It was overtimely from their mother's womb.

[6:42] Like if there's a movie about two mummies.

[6:44] Ripped untimely from his mother's womb means that it was a C-section.

[6:48] Not that she was old and he was old.

[6:50] Just like how in Dead Alive the two zombies have a zombie baby,

[6:53] if two mummies had a baby, it would be like, I don't know, Morgan Freeman, I guess.

[6:58] Okay, there you go.

[6:59] Mummy, baby, Morgan Freeman.

[7:02] Well, here's the thing.

[7:04] It's 1950-whatever.

[7:06] We're introduced to four friends, the Flatbush Four, they call themselves.

[7:09] And their personalities are already right there.

[7:13] Robert De Niro's character is sullen and punches people.

[7:16] Kevin Kline's character is a bit of a nerd.

[7:18] Michael Douglas' character is the fast-talking slickster.

[7:21] And Morgan Freeman is black.

[7:22] And those are their character dynamic personalities.

[7:25] A guy in a leather jacket threatens them or something,

[7:28] and they steal a bottle of scotch and punch him and run away.

[7:33] So these are hooligans.

[7:34] It's one of those things where, like, if you set a scene now in a movie

[7:39] and kids, like, stole a bottle of liquor and punched a guy,

[7:43] they'd be like, oh, these are bad kids.

[7:45] In the 50s, anything goes.

[7:47] Fast-forward 58 years, just like the Bratz movie.

[7:50] This is 58 years later.

[7:52] It's their sophomore year of high school.

[7:54] Things are not going well.

[7:55] They've been held back 50 times.

[7:59] But anyway, that's besides the point.

[8:00] Bratz and so forth.

[8:01] That joke I didn't work out.

[8:03] Let's keep moving, shall we?

[8:04] Fifty-eight years later, they all have their problems.

[8:06] Kevin Kline is living in Florida doing aquaerobics.

[8:08] He feels old.

[8:09] But he looks great.

[8:10] But he's in great shape.

[8:11] He does not need to do aquaerobics.

[8:13] He's married to his wife, Joanna Gleason, who you may remember

[8:16] as the baker's wife from Inch of the Woods.

[8:20] Yeah, if you watch it on PBS or something.

[8:22] Yeah, if you saw the great performances.

[8:24] She was also in West Wing.

[8:25] They were good performances.

[8:27] Okay.

[8:28] So she was in West Wing as the baker's wife.

[8:31] Yeah, but I'm just pointing out, you've got your Kevin Kline,

[8:34] you've got your Joanna Gleason's movie.

[8:35] Roger Bart shows up later.

[8:36] Yeah, there's a lot of Broadway stars.

[8:38] A lot of Broadway stars, by which I mean three.

[8:41] So he's in Florida hating his life.

[8:43] Morgan Freeman lives with his son's family,

[8:45] hates his life, takes a lot of pills.

[8:47] It's medicine pills, though.

[8:48] Robert De Niro is basically –

[8:50] He's not taking mothballs.

[8:55] He's not a hophead.

[8:56] It's not like he's taking –

[8:58] A bunch of lewds.

[8:59] Uppers and downers and red bennies and things like that.

[9:03] Morgan Freeman is not like buying pills off some guy

[9:08] in the back of a movie theater or something.

[9:10] I've got to keep the energy up so I can play with my grandkids.

[9:14] What have you got?

[9:15] What have you got?

[9:16] You've got to make me well, man.

[9:17] I've got to get well.

[9:18] Anyway.

[9:19] Plays with his grandkids takes on a different meaning

[9:21] when it's Morgan Freeman.

[9:22] Boom.

[9:23] Boom.

[9:24] Swish.

[9:25] Nothing but gross.

[9:26] Anyway, moving on.

[9:27] Robert De Niro is a widowed shut-in,

[9:30] and Michael Douglas is about to marry a woman one quarter his age,

[9:35] 31 years old.

[9:37] I don't think that's one quarter his age.

[9:39] He is at least 120 years old.

[9:40] He's supposed to be 70.

[9:42] Come on.

[9:44] I mean, he looks horrifying, right?

[9:46] There's a part where he falls in a pool,

[9:48] and when he gets out, he looks like Solomon Grunt.

[9:50] Like he just crawled out of a swamp.

[9:52] He's a half-decayed corpse.

[9:54] No offense to Michael Douglas.

[9:55] I really liked you in the Liberace movie.

[9:57] But you are like the Crypt Keeper.

[10:00] But with a tan. Part of it's the costuming, right?

[10:03] Uh, he's wearing like a tuxedo and heavy makeup. I mean the costuming in that like his Michael

[10:09] Douglas's face is an old guy's with perfect bleached teeth. Yeah, it's like Tom Savini style.

[10:18] Yeah, all the Tom Savini zombies had beautiful. His head is filled with blood filled condoms,

[10:24] so it's going to explode. The Tom Savini effect. So anyway, Michael Douglas realizes he

[10:32] proposes to his girlfriend while he's giving a eulogy at the funeral of a friend of his,

[10:37] and this is not a good eulogy. Let's say non-traditional. He's playing it for laughs.

[10:42] He starts telling the guy in the casket what a loser he was, basically. I'm not going to

[10:46] give up like you. It's the Comedy Central roast of the guy in the casket. And he, uh,

[10:52] and he proposes. Michael Douglas would be a good get for that. Yeah, huge get. Oh yeah,

[10:57] if he survived the ceremony. And then he, and on the spur of the moment. I like the idea that

[11:02] there are all these like roast funerals and just Lisa Lampanelli shows up for all of them.

[11:07] Yeah, so this dead guy's, hooray, too bad he's not black, or Lisa Lampanelli's

[11:11] going to climb into the casket. There are all these people in the audience,

[11:14] she doesn't even know the corpse. That's not fair. A writer wrote that material. They don't

[11:18] know each other. That corpse had a real career. What does Tosh know about that corpse?

[11:25] Anyway. Anywho, so in the middle of his eulogy, he proposes to his girlfriend. He tells his friends,

[11:31] except for Robert De Niro, because they had a falling out a year earlier. It seems,

[11:35] it seems Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas were both interested in the same girl when they were

[11:40] kids. Robert De Niro married her, and then she died a year ago, and Michael Douglas did not

[11:44] attend the funeral. I guess because he didn't have any roast jokes written for the occasion.

[11:50] Like, I just can't show up. They expect strong material from me, and I just don't have it right

[11:54] now. So they decide they're going to go on a bachelor weekend to where else but the sin of

[12:00] cities, the king of places, where you go for bachelors. Well, that was the first, that was

[12:05] the first time where I actually, like, I was kind of surprised by the movie, because I thought what

[12:09] Michael Douglas was calling all his buddies and showing off how great he is at using his phone

[12:14] by doing four-way calling or whatever. I thought he was going to... And that's what gets this movie

[12:18] into the science fiction label, is that this is an old man who knows all the functions on his phone.

[12:24] So I expected him to be the, like, instigator for this whole thing. Yeah, like, come on,

[12:28] you guys, you gotta come out, I'm getting married, finally. It's Kevin Kline, the Floridian

[12:33] Santa Claus character, who... He just has a beard. So does Santa Claus? He's not so much Santa Claus

[12:40] as Art Carney from Harry and Tonto. Yeah, he's just an old guy who's, you know, loves his wife,

[12:45] but he's a little tired of being in Florida and being married. He doesn't want to... Well,

[12:49] he's tired of being old. He doesn't want to feel old. Yeah. And he is... They all, basically,

[12:54] they all feel this way. He wants to have a last say, if you will. He feels put out of the pasture.

[12:58] They all feel... He wants to come back away from the pasture. They're a bunch of space cowboys

[13:02] who feel like they've got something else to offer. Yeah, yeah, they're on a boat trip.

[13:06] Wait, that's not an old person movie. I mean, Roger Moore's pretty old in that.

[13:11] They've got absolute power. This is the Glenn Eastwood movie. They're getting their blood work

[13:17] done so that they can drive a Gran Torino into Million Dollar Baby. We got a real grudge match.

[13:25] There you go. Okay, that's an old person thing. Yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah. It's a real

[13:29] best exotic marigold hotel. So there's some hilarious laugh-em-ups as they all

[13:35] find their way to Las Vegas. They all escape, and Kevin Kline's wife, before he goes,

[13:39] gives him a card that says, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and taped to it

[13:44] is a one Viagra pill and one condom. She gives him a Hall Pass, if you will.

[13:49] Trademark. Trademark me. No, you didn't trademark it. It's a movie. There's a movie

[13:54] called Hall Pass. Check it. That's patent trolling, right? That is exactly patent trolling.

[13:58] That's exactly what it is. And you, sir, are a pox on society. You're hurting innovation.

[14:02] You're hurting small business. Whatever. But you've got to pay me for that.

[14:07] Now, go live under your patent bridge and eat patent billy goats, you patent troll.

[14:12] Answer me these patent questions three, or across my bridge ye shall not be.

[14:20] Anyway, Kevin Kline. I like this patent troll character. Does he just comb through the libraries

[14:26] of the patent office all the time, scurrying through the dark hallways to see what hasn't

[14:30] been patented? He's like, I got your horns patented, gruff. Those are mine.

[14:35] I patented the concept of eating a tin can, goats.

[14:39] Yeah. Oh, wow. Goat callback. Awesome.

[14:41] Yeah. Anyway, so they go to Las Vegas. Kevin Kline wants to get laid. Morgan Freeman wants

[14:48] to feel young again. Robert De Niro doesn't want to be there. And Michael Douglas is just

[14:53] kind of wandering around. He's just in it to have a good time.

[14:56] He wants to be with his buddies.

[14:57] And there's at first a problem because they booked a room at, what was it, Binion's?

[15:02] Yeah. But Binion's is closed for

[15:04] renovation in a really unnecessary side tangent that we didn't need to experience, except that

[15:09] it brings them into contact with a startlingly singing siren, a sultry starlet, a sensational

[15:19] sex symphony? Savvy?

[15:22] Sex lady. A snappy steen virgin, if you will.

[15:27] Steen virgin comma Mary, known as Mary Steen Virgin, who is singing her sultry seduction

[15:33] sonatas in the secluded space of the solitary, what's an S word for there's nobody there?

[15:42] I don't know.

[15:43] Sempty. Sempty of audience members room at the Binion Casino. They hang out with her for

[15:51] roughly 17 days. To find solace.

[15:53] To find solace in these septarians, septagenarians.

[15:59] They all hit it off with her immediately and they basically just get her to leave work in the

[16:02] middle of her singing set. There's no audience.

[16:04] There's no audience. There's like two other people in that audience.

[16:07] I have to assume her backstory is that she owns the place and she sings there as a hobby

[16:11] She didn't explain that when she was explaining her personal history.

[16:15] Michael Douglas cut her off in the scene where we stopped paying attention.

[16:18] We were paying attention to the people in the background and the signs and such.

[16:20] It was so much more interesting than what was happening in the foreground.

[16:23] So they go to...

[16:24] Binion's is on the old strip, right?

[16:26] It is on the old strip, yeah. So yeah, that's why it's also...

[16:29] You guys know Las Vegas. I've never been there. I have no real interest,

[16:32] but you guys have been there a lot of times.

[16:33] Oh yeah, we're fucking bros.

[16:35] You're old vague hands.

[16:36] I mean, if...

[16:38] You're a bunch of vagas.

[16:39] Whoa, we are?

[16:40] Yeah, yeah. Jumping on your spade.

[16:41] Don't knock my mask off.

[16:43] With your one Wolverine claw.

[16:44] You might mess up my beautiful face.

[16:46] No, I mean, you know...

[16:47] Sultry Spaniard Vega.

[16:49] Basically, all we're saying is there's an old Las Vegas and then there's the new strip.

[16:54] The last Vegas, if you will.

[16:56] So Stine Virgin is singing at the old, seedier casinos, and that's why no one's there.

[17:01] And then most of the thing takes place in the new strip.

[17:04] I think because it's convenient for plot purposes that she can just leave work whenever she wants.

[17:07] Yeah, yeah.

[17:08] So they go to, which hotel was it?

[17:11] Aria's.

[17:12] Aria's.

[17:13] I'm guessing sponsor of the movie.

[17:15] Because there are a lot of scenes set there showing how amazing it is

[17:19] and how easy it is to win a $5 buffet coupon at their prize wheel.

[17:23] Is that a Las Vegas thing?

[17:25] I mean, that totally seems like something you would find.

[17:27] You just pay a dollar in the lobby for a Wheel of Fortune prize type thing.

[17:31] It's like an opening entranceway portal to gambling.

[17:35] Yeah, yeah.

[17:35] It's just a dollar and I can win $5 off the buffet.

[17:38] And next thing you know, you're sitting down at a blackjack table winning $100,000.

[17:41] It's the portfolio of gambling.

[17:43] Yeah, the dark side of gambling.

[17:44] The dark side of gambling is you might end up with too much money.

[17:47] Ah, it doesn't fit in my pockets.

[17:50] Yeah, that's one of the first things that happens.

[17:53] We call that Brewster's Millions.

[17:54] So this is the first point where the characters split up and just kind of wander off like old

[17:58] men and have their own mini-adventures before going back to the main party and going back

[18:03] on the main quest.

[18:03] We have a great little side quest with Roger Bart as a Madonna.

[18:09] Kevin Kline sees a woman from behind, thinks it's a woman, goes and hits on her.

[18:14] Turns out to be Roger Bart as a Madonna impersonator.

[18:17] And then they have a surprisingly long conversation that goes on for a while and they become fast

[18:22] friends.

[18:23] Well, this is one of the...

[18:24] Fast five friends.

[18:25] This is a weird scene in the movie.

[18:26] That's also patent trolling.

[18:29] I copyrighted that.

[18:30] The idea of speedy numbers, that's mine.

[18:33] This is a weird scene in the movie because it does the normal thing, which is to, like,

[18:37] you think it's setting this transvestite up as the butt of the joke.

[18:42] Like, he's going to see it's a transvestite and go like,

[18:46] and then walk away.

[18:47] But then, like, it ends up being like Kevin Kline then has a lengthy,

[18:51] friendly conversation with him and his other...

[18:54] It's a super understanding of trans life.

[18:57] And his coworkers.

[18:57] I mean, they seem to be professional transvestites.

[18:59] Well, yeah, they've got a drag show.

[19:01] But it's just weird because it's just like...

[19:03] Talk about a drag show.

[19:04] I saw it.

[19:05] It was depressing.

[19:07] They reenact the lowest moment in every one of these female celebrities' lives.

[19:11] The Whitney Houston scene is impossible to sit through.

[19:14] I had to get up and leave.

[19:15] I thought when it was over, I finally walked in.

[19:18] That's when the Patty Hearst scene started.

[19:20] Oh boy, was it rough.

[19:21] Doesn't sound like a very popular drag character.

[19:24] Patty Hearst?

[19:25] Patty Hearst.

[19:26] No.

[19:28] It was like a roller derby character, Patty Burst.

[19:32] I just found it interesting because it's just like...

[19:33] No, no, Patty Hurst would be the role.

[19:35] That's way better.

[19:36] Patty Hurst.

[19:37] Yeah.

[19:37] How do I feel about this scene?

[19:39] They're still setting up the usual joke of a guy mistaking a guy in a dress for a lady.

[19:45] But now they're friends.

[19:46] Sort of understanding?

[19:48] I don't know.

[19:49] It's so hard to be mad at Kevin Kline.

[19:51] It's just, it's the one progressive moment in a movie,

[19:54] which is otherwise old men leering at boobs for like an hour and 40 minutes.

[19:58] It's like the one that...

[20:00] They don't have in the movies Rondi Dangerfield like bugging his eyes out at a girl shaking her chest in his face

[20:04] But they kind of do have that. Yeah, there's that great sequence where they

[20:09] With it. We are at an LMFAO themed themed LMFAO hosted bikini

[20:15] Themed everyone wears retarded clothes and sings that I apologize for saying that word. Yeah LMFAO. Yeah, it's terrible anyway, so close

[20:25] so yeah, they

[20:27] somehow they buy their way into a

[20:30] into a bikini

[20:32] Freeman wins $100,000 of blackjack

[20:34] Because he cashed out his penny not he makes turtle leave the table or something turtle from entourage

[20:40] Who's lost a lot of weight gets up?

[20:41] But he was him great and they make him and how do they make him leave they just threaten him?

[20:46] I don't remember. He knocks a beer on him

[20:49] And tells him to leave or something. No, no, no, Morgan Freeman knocks a beer on his lap. He's frustrated

[20:54] Large

[20:56] Beer on his lap. Okay. Well, so well Michael well people are taking turns hanging out Mary Steenburgen. He wins this money and

[21:03] They go to this LMFAO hosted bikini contest where they get I guess they buy positions as judges

[21:09] And this scene is literally just

[21:13] Like six straight minutes. It feels like I'm just looking at women in bikini girls bouncing around bikinis

[21:19] You missed the subtext Elliot LMFAO is gonna lose their casino, so they need bikini girls to raise money to save it

[21:26] Gambling doesn't make enough money for else party rockers their casino would close down and turn into condos for evil developers

[21:41] Kenny G is gonna knock it down and build build a smooth jazz Emporium your rock and roll has no place in Las Vegas

[21:49] That's what he says

[21:50] We're all about keyboard music and vibraphones. So anyway

[21:56] There's that so there's this great from LF. Are you gonna talk about I was gonna say there's this great

[22:01] Bikini contest where they just keep giving them all tens, which totally devalues that rating

[22:06] Yeah, if you get everybody attends the way if everybody's a winner, everybody's the Rolling Stone three-star review of bikini contest

[22:13] Exactly, you're like making the Incredibles argument. What is it's a participation award? Come on

[22:19] Exactly an old lady comes out in a swimsuit and they give her an 11, which I assume means she wins

[22:24] Whatever the prize is. Yeah, and then the got lead from LMFAO takes his pants off and waves his crotch and Robert De Niro's face

[22:31] Think this thing's gonna end with Roger ripping that man's throat out with his teeth

[22:35] He said he gives him a zero and everyone's like, yeah

[22:39] I assume this already exists on this work into it

[22:42] But if you want to make a gif of the guy from LMFAO rubbing his crotch in

[22:49] Waggling his crotch waggling is a perfect word for it. I'm sure there was like you can waggle just don't touch in a bejeweled bikini brief

[22:56] It's in his contract

[23:00] And it said and it said rubs and he crossed out wrote waggles

[23:04] Can we can we get it's my contract no more than no less than two and a half inches from my face

[23:10] Don't you think it'll be funnier less that he doesn't touch me. Yeah, that's my De Niro impression. It's terrible. Yeah. No, that was very bad

[23:18] Not like I can do a particularly good

[23:33] So

[23:35] England's better pay you. Yeah, so they moving forward moving forward, which is not what the movie does

[23:40] The characters wander around Las Vegas for a long time. They do they do young people stuff

[23:44] But at some point they get that to me. It's that Doritos locust the Red Bull taco commercial, whatever. Yeah, it was

[23:50] It's a whole movie of a rapping granny. Yeah, it's yeah

[23:53] if this we've ever is rapping granny the movie cuz I'll tell you what that is

[23:57] Charting the rise and fall of this rapping granny as she reaches for the stars

[24:01] But flies too close to the Sun and her old person wings of wax melt

[24:06] Dropping her to the gutter and rock bottom. So I'm gonna be the deadliest figure in this tonight on vh1 behind the music

[24:13] Rapping granny. Oh, I guess her agent. Is that no? No her. No. Yeah, her agent is the daughterless

[24:20] Daughterless. Yeah, cuz he always daughter

[24:22] And she's of course, you have the Icarus in that

[24:25] She is the son she's the daughter of a man who built the labyrinth and then they were trapped in it

[24:30] Okay

[24:33] We're not allowed to talk about done it doing a dream catcher episode

[24:37] so

[24:38] That let's just skip to whatever the closest at some point

[24:42] They get they they end up because Morgan Freeman did so well the at the casino with this gambling thing

[24:48] They are given a I guess some kind of a life ward by the name of played by Romany Malco

[24:54] Yeah

[24:56] They're called I won't make that shit giving it I'm giving an old man apprentice

[25:01] Exactly, and or he has this movie was directed by the director of Sorcerer's Apprentice. I think that's appropriate exactly

[25:07] They are you turtle given the the the massive suite that's usually reserved for 50 cent and he shows up later in a

[25:15] Hilarious cameo where he wants to join in the old man fun

[25:19] But is turned away the door because he's not an ARP member. Yeah, I wish that was it though

[25:24] It was a great ad for this. I guess penthouse. You can rent at this hotel

[25:28] yeah, and they live at this penthouse and hang out with girls and

[25:33] Yeah, they take turns hanging out with Mary Steenburgen

[25:36] It turns out Rob De Niro's a crush on her Michael Douglas has a crush on her. She starts to feel affection for Michael Douglas

[25:42] They throw a huge party for Michael Douglas that they invite every character

[25:46] We've seen in the movie to including like the cast of Cirque du Soleil

[25:50] Yeah, Roger Bart and his other drag

[25:54] drag pals

[25:56] Dragons, they're called. Yeah. Oh, there's a there's women from the Bachelorette Party that they met down at the club

[26:03] Turtle is there having become their slave after he is told that they are East Coast mob bosses who can have him kill Romney Malco

[26:09] For some reason has decided to make them apologize turtle apologized to them for getting in fisticuffs

[26:16] By pretending that they're all mob people and though and thus

[26:20] Turtle is in fear of his life for the rest of the movie and does whatever they want him to

[26:25] Because he doesn't want to die. I think it's because somebody told him he'd get to act with Robert De Niro

[26:31] No, I can understand why he took the role

[26:34] Is doing that thing?

[26:36] So they throw this big party to love them where all their dreams come true

[26:40] Morgan Freeman sees his son who tracks him down. It's like Draco Malfoy loves a Dobby or Dobby or whatever the fuck you call

[26:46] That little guy Adobe the car that's made out of clay

[26:49] We did a Dobo. Yeah, Adobe a Bobo from Final Fight, right? No, that's uh, that's double dragon

[26:56] No, those are those big guys. That's right. I got my side scrollers mixed up

[27:00] Anyway, is there anything any way we can talk less about this movie? They get a big party

[27:06] Morgan Freeman's son catches up with him and he says hey

[27:09] Just cuz I'm old doesn't mean I don't want to dance. So let's hang out drink

[27:13] Do we have a synchronized dance at that point?

[27:15] Yes, there certainly is Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman takes his time dancing with every one of the drag queens or you know

[27:22] Cross-dressing performers. I don't know what they what they what the professional name is. Sure

[27:27] They Kevin Kline manages to snag a bridesmaid from the group of people or two earlier told him that he reminds her of her

[27:34] Grandpa, yeah, but now she's totally into him and wants to have sex with his grandpa figure

[27:39] But after she takes off her clothes, he realizes you know

[27:43] What if he can't share this experience with his wife who said do what you want, but don't tell me about it

[27:47] Then it isn't worth having and so he says hey, thanks, but no thing

[27:52] I found this day-to-mile a little disappointing

[27:54] Although I did like that. I mean it was a way to trick her into seeing her boobs like in school

[28:00] But I did kind of like the like sweet moment of then the woman being like, you know what I

[28:06] Wish I could marry a guy like you someday. I thought you and then Kevin Kline afterwards being like

[28:11] but I bet a blowjob would be okay as she's leaving which was a

[28:16] Ruder joke than I expected the movie to make cuz you're like man. He's a good guy and a creep just like me

[28:22] I think you're forgetting that I called that line

[28:25] Yeah, that's true literally saying it a couple seconds before it happened, so who's the creep now Ellie's the creep

[28:31] I'm the creep or am I secretly the author of Last Vegas?

[28:40] Myself into the mind of a creep to write this part

[28:43] It was difficult. I studied creeps. I read up on them. I followed Dan and steward around for a while

[28:48] Hey, wait, why am I being brought into this?

[28:51] well

[28:52] Two words or me boner. Okay, and let's continue. So Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman their character arcs are over now

[29:02] Yeah, they might will drop dead right now in the movie not in real life

[29:05] They're national treasures Robert De Niro says to Michael Douglas. Do you really love this woman?

[29:09] You're marrying and Michael was like, ah, she's really nice. He's like no

[29:12] No, if you don't really love her, you shouldn't do it. And then Mary Steenburgen shows up at the party

[29:18] they're both interested in her and

[29:21] Rob Michael Douglas pushes Robert De Niro into a pool so he can get to her first

[29:24] He's really off-limits like of all the terrible things that they do like you just see like he's an old man

[29:30] Like like De Niro just elbows old Michael

[29:35] Sorry

[29:37] Could have broken his hip doing that. Yeah, if anything wait Michael Douglas could have broken his hip hip checking Robert De Niro. Yeah

[29:44] Yeah, okay. Yeah, wait, wait, what?

[29:47] Yeah match he was in grudge match

[29:49] He's keeping it tight and then he and then he falls in the pool and then gets to do like some good like face wet

[29:54] Acting he did Michael Rob De Niro's response when he falls into the pool his facial expression. It's like he's in a stupor

[30:00] Yeah, he might as well have fallen into a vat of cream pies.

[30:06] Just like everything these old guys do in the movie, every time they do something, beautiful

[30:11] women flock to them because that's the coolest thing they could have ever possibly done.

[30:15] Yeah, for some reason, it is very much a like arrested male fantasy, the whole movie.

[30:21] Yeah.

[30:22] Oh, the idea that you get to hang out with Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman all the time.

[30:25] You get to have a Las Vegas and ladies.

[30:28] That men of any age are like catnip to big-breasted women in their mid to early twenties, I'm

[30:34] guessing.

[30:35] Sure.

[30:36] And although the world has moved on, you are actually the coolest dude.

[30:37] I mean, I'd buy that with Kevin Kline, but no one else.

[30:39] And also, but also that like, this is...

[30:40] Well, yeah, I mean, he's great.

[30:41] Kevin Kline's great.

[30:42] The extras in this movie are cast like a Cinemax bikini movie.

[30:46] Every woman in the movie, aside from Mary Steenburgen, seems to be about 24 years old,

[30:51] super chesty and wearing either a bikini or a dress made out of like some kind of

[30:57] second skin fabric that just hugs her.

[31:00] Like Psylocke would wear.

[31:01] Like, I've never been to Las Vegas, but it seems like for a huge tourist destination,

[31:04] there were no tourists walking around.

[31:06] There was just like sexy ladies everywhere.

[31:09] And I want to know, where is this legend, this fabled city of the sexy ladies?

[31:13] This Las Vegas you speak of.

[31:15] This Lust Vegas, which would be a good name for a Cinemax show.

[31:18] Yeah, I think that's a great idea.

[31:19] Yeah.

[31:20] Yeah.

[31:21] Let's pitch that.

[31:22] Okay.

[31:23] It's called Lust Vegas, and it's at a casino where people pay in sex.

[31:24] Wait, what do you win?

[31:25] It's about a call-in sex show.

[31:26] You win pleasure when you're off your wildest dreams.

[31:27] Yeah.

[31:28] Where people call in and they talk about their sexy times in Lust Vegas.

[31:33] Yeah.

[31:34] Yeah.

[31:35] No, well, and it's sex-themed games.

[31:36] Yeah.

[31:37] Yeah.

[31:38] So like instead of poker, it's strip poker.

[31:39] I mean, you can just keep the name poker.

[31:40] A lot of games of chance are called.

[31:41] Yeah.

[31:42] Instead of roulette, it's, I don't know.

[31:43] Booblet.

[31:44] Booblet.

[31:45] Yeah, there you go.

[31:46] That's great.

[31:47] And Michael Booblet plays it.

[31:48] And instead of slot machines, they're just slot machines.

[31:51] Yeah.

[31:52] Yeah.

[31:53] Disgusting.

[31:54] I shouldn't have said that.

[31:55] But anyway, the-

[31:56] We've all said things we regret tonight.

[31:57] Oh, yeah.

[31:58] We've had a real Lust Vegas experience.

[31:59] What stays in Lust Vegas episode.

[32:00] Wait.

[32:01] Wait, hold on.

[32:02] What happens in the Lust Vegas-

[32:03] Lust Vegas?

[32:04] In the Lust Vegas happens in the stay.

[32:05] When Larry's, when Lust Vegas met Sally.

[32:06] No, no, no.

[32:07] When Cousin Larry met Suzanne Vega, they went to Regis?

[32:18] All right.

[32:19] When Vega from Street Fighter II stays in Lust Vegas.

[32:23] No, no, no.

[32:24] But not Super Street Fighter II.

[32:25] No.

[32:26] Because he's an asshole in that one.

[32:27] When Lou Vega slays Lassie, it stays-

[32:32] When Lassie Halstrom makes a racist, wait, this sounds like this is the worst prophecy

[32:38] I've ever heard.

[32:39] No.

[32:40] Trust me.

[32:41] It's a quatrain.

[32:42] It makes sense metaphorically.

[32:43] Anyway.

[32:44] Everyone is happy.

[32:45] So, they're all mad at each other, but in the end, Rob De Niro stops Michael Douglas

[32:51] from marrying this girl by pushing him into a pool.

[32:54] Mary Steenburgen and Michael Douglas are going to get married and-

[32:57] There's a couple of shots of Morgan Freeman looking like he's experiencing another stroke.

[33:01] Where Michael Douglas is talking about how he is old, but he doesn't want to be old and

[33:05] what happened to his life, and they keep cutting to Morgan Freeman literally just staring into

[33:09] the distance.

[33:10] And you just wonder, like, what is he thinking at that moment?

[33:13] It's like-

[33:14] It's like they took a still image of Morgan Freeman and just put it up on screen.

[33:19] What was like the Russian theorist?

[33:22] Was it like the Kuleshov?

[33:23] Yeah, the Kuleshov.

[33:24] Yeah, like the experiments where they just, like, use the same expression and edit it.

[33:30] If you put Morgan Freeman and then cut to a shot of soup, he'd be hungry.

[33:33] If you showed Morgan Freeman and cut to a shot of, like, a grave, he's sad.

[33:36] Yeah.

[33:37] Show Morgan Freeman and cut to a shot of boobs, and you have the movie Las Vegas.

[33:41] Yeah.

[33:42] So, it's a blank expression.

[33:44] Yeah, yeah.

[33:45] It's a beautiful experiment in shot conjunction and juxtaposed editing.

[33:50] Yeah.

[33:51] So, Michael Douglas-

[33:52] The theory of montage.

[33:53] In the end, everyone's happy, and Kevin Kline-

[33:55] Speaking of montages, there's a great dress-up montage as well.

[34:00] With Romany Malko looking at them and shaking his head.

[34:03] Thumbs up, shaking his head.

[34:05] It is the laziest dressing-up montage.

[34:08] They never even get dressed in anything really crazy or silly.

[34:10] No.

[34:11] There was in their contract as well.

[34:12] I mean, Morgan Freeman's dressed in kind of a crazy jacket the whole time.

[34:15] It looks like the devil gets lost.

[34:17] If Bullet in the Head could squeeze in a silly hat mask dress-up scene,

[34:22] then surely Las Vegas could spend some time and energy into that.

[34:25] Yeah.

[34:26] I feel like Kevin Kline pushed for more of a crazy dress-up thing,

[34:29] and Robert De Niro poo-pooed it.

[34:31] Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.

[34:32] I'll wear two silly jackets, but they can't be that silly.

[34:37] So, this is a movie that feels like a bunch of doddering old men

[34:40] wandering around Las Vegas.

[34:42] But they don't really do too many-

[34:43] They say quippy old man jokes,

[34:45] but there's no situations where they're old-

[34:47] There's no Mr. Magoo-type things.

[34:49] Didn't we get the final ending, though, where like-

[34:53] Michael Douglas ends up with Mary Seinfeld.

[34:55] Yeah, and Robert De Niro's no longer a shut-in.

[34:57] They're gonna get married.

[34:58] That's opening the door to Las Vegas 2.

[35:00] We didn't stick around until the end of the credits,

[35:02] so there might have been a stinger.

[35:04] There's probably a stinger scene where like 50 Cent looks at the cameras like,

[35:07] those guys know how to party.

[35:09] Wink!

[35:10] Kevin Kline doesn't-

[35:11] His teeth sparkle, and then a magic fairy hits him with a wand

[35:14] and he turns into a frog or some shit, I don't know.

[35:16] Oh my god, he's that frog character from the Las Vegas comics?

[35:19] Amazing!

[35:20] Exactly, yeah.

[35:22] Kevin Kline doesn't answer his phone telling him that Michael Douglas is getting married

[35:25] because he's too busy in conjugal joy with his wife Joanna Gleeson.

[35:29] In a circular bed, like the one from Las Vegas.

[35:31] So did he buy one of those?

[35:33] Or did they go and they somehow afford that?

[35:35] I was having a- yeah, I was wondering-

[35:37] I'm assuming they bought one.

[35:39] We were wondering what the value of the circular rotating bed is.

[35:43] We're not gonna talk about our sexual suggestions for how you would use-

[35:49] That seems totally out of character for this podcast.

[35:52] I'm just confused, I don't understand what the necessary sexual advantage of having a rotating bed is.

[35:57] I think it requires one person to stand off to the side of the bed-

[36:00] I'll tell you this, Dan, have you ever had an orgasm while dizzy?

[36:03] Okay.

[36:04] Because if not, you have not lived.

[36:06] You start spinning while you're doing it, and you'll see what I mean.

[36:09] Like a normal human has to just spin around during the process?

[36:13] Like I guess like a-

[36:14] Wait, how are you having sex?

[36:16] Hold on.

[36:18] The right way, dude?

[36:19] Okay.

[36:20] Yeah, it saves you the trouble of balancing on your penis and spinning around that way.

[36:23] I don't know that you guys are doing this, but-

[36:25] That's how Bazooka Joe orgasms.

[36:28] Well, I'm Bazooka Joe.

[36:30] Because they always do the backwards flip when they hear the joke, right?

[36:33] On a flip take.

[36:34] Yeah, but without spinning, he's just falling over backwards.

[36:37] Yeah, but that's like the same thing.

[36:39] Not at all, in any way.

[36:41] So this movie, if I was going to subscribe it, I'd say it's like grown-ups, the movie, with old people.

[36:47] Like, hey, these four actors were offered a vacation in Las Vegas,

[36:50] if they would occasionally appear in front of a camera and just talk to each other.

[36:53] Yeah.

[36:54] Yeah.

[36:55] But Kevin Kline-

[36:56] That's excluding the minuscule budget.

[36:57] But Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman almost save it, in some cases,

[37:01] because they're just charismatic old men.

[37:03] Yeah, let's skip to Final Judgments, and I'm going to start off,

[37:06] and I'm going to actually say that I really, by the slimmest of margins,

[37:12] kind of like this movie.

[37:14] On a scale of-

[37:15] On a scale of their dentures.

[37:16] On a scale of good, bad movie, bad, bad movie, movie, I kind of liked,

[37:19] just on the basis of the charm of the actors and, as you say, mostly Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman,

[37:24] I kind of liked it.

[37:25] It's not a good movie.

[37:27] What it is is a kind of enjoyable sitcom about four old guys.

[37:31] It's The Golden Guys.

[37:32] It is The Golden Guys, yeah.

[37:34] So I kind of liked it on that level.

[37:35] The Golden Guys go to Las Vegas.

[37:37] Stuart, what do you got to say about it?

[37:39] I think that's fair.

[37:40] I mean, it could easily be a bad, bad movie.

[37:43] I'll agree with you, though.

[37:44] I feel like it's such a non-movie, but it's so inoffensive,

[37:49] and Kevin Kline can be kind of funny.

[37:51] Yeah, I guess-

[37:53] I don't know if I would agree with inoffensive since, again,

[37:56] it is an entire movie of men peering at women's boobs.

[38:00] But I-

[38:02] That's not inaccurate.

[38:04] I guess it's just-

[38:05] No, old men do do that.

[38:06] I mean, men of all ages do that,

[38:07] but I don't know if there should have been more substance to the movie maybe.

[38:09] By substance, I don't mean like a message or like emotion.

[38:12] I just mean jokes that are-

[38:13] I guess holding a mirror up to nature isn't enough for you.

[38:16] I'm just saying, if at that age we can't fight our bestial urges,

[38:21] then what hope is there for humanity?

[38:23] I mean, there aren't jokes really, right?

[38:28] It's one of those movies where there's a couple old man jokes in the beginning,

[38:31] and then they kind of forget that they're old men for a lot of the movie.

[38:34] It's just like they're just not 20-year-olds.

[38:39] I mean, once again, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline accomplish a lot

[38:44] with just like funny body movements,

[38:46] and there's a good scene where there's a scene that's kind of funny

[38:49] where Morgan Freeman drinks a bunch of vodka and Red Bull.

[38:54] Yeah, and then just starts talking and can't stop talking.

[38:57] Yeah, that's pretty good.

[38:58] And a less talented actor would have made that inseparable,

[39:01] but he managed to make it work.

[39:03] Yeah, like if Robert De Niro had been the one for that to happen to,

[39:06] it would have been terrible.

[39:08] That's what he's saying, Robert De Niro.

[39:10] I would say he's less funny than Morgan Freeman is.

[39:12] That's true.

[39:13] Less funny, I'll buy.

[39:15] I would say this movie doesn't really fit into our categories.

[39:18] I cannot say it's a movie I kind of liked.

[39:20] There were a couple times when I laughed at it,

[39:22] but I feel like for a movie to be something I kind of liked,

[39:25] I would have to have gotten more than a thimble full of pleasure from watching it.

[39:30] Maybe I just enjoyed watching it with my buddies.

[39:32] You know what?

[39:33] When we're all old, 58 years from now, let's watch Las Vegas together.

[39:37] Yeah, how's that going to happen?

[39:39] So we're all going to show up to Las Vegas.

[39:42] Dan's going to be getting married again, I guess.

[39:44] Yeah, of course, by that point it will be called Las Vegas

[39:46] because the apocalypse will have happened.

[39:49] Bikers will roam the earth.

[39:50] And it's going to be run by mutants.

[39:52] Of course, of course, but they're still running good casinos.

[39:55] If anything, they're a little more honest than the people running the casinos now.

[39:57] Yeah, the mutants are honest, of course, to a fault.

[40:00] kind of prudish so there's no drinking and prostitution is now illegal because

[40:03] of the radiation priests

[40:04] it's the radiation priests who believe that the nuclear war

[40:08] you know there's the anger of a righteous God yeah of course

[40:12] and is gifted the mutants with the beloved the radiation and mutation yeah

[40:16] because that that was his gift

[40:18] upon being touched and of course they keep the last so we're going to arrive

[40:22] they keep the last

[40:22] is a very well-hardened road warriors side of Binion's

[40:25] and people are exposed to it to see what God has in store for them

[40:29] gifts he's going to give them usually it's cancer but sometimes it's like a

[40:32] superpower

[40:33] yeah it's radiation Dan that's what it does to people well anyway

[40:37] I would say it's not a bad bad movie or a good bad it's not

[40:40] a good bad movie but it's not this is a

[40:43] I tell you what I think Dan would this is what I think Dan would think of as a

[40:47] movie to watch on a plane yeah if you want to see it if you're a young actor

[40:51] and you wanna

[40:52] object lesson in how being charming can

[40:56] save material have you watched this movie that's good this is a learning

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[43:21] and for listening to our show not that not that as much Squarespace

[43:25] do that a better tomorrow right

[43:29] I don't think so

[43:32] I think that might be consumer products

[43:36] yeah it's like Oscorp or something

[43:39] so uh Max Trek Industries let's uh move on to

[43:43] uh letters letters from listeners

[43:47] listeners from letters this is very unusual some other chump

[43:52] used to sing a song about letters but not today

[43:56] cuz it's me Stuart singing

[43:59] you're taking advantage of the fact that I'm tired from taking care of a baby

[44:03] that's why I've been kind of bad this episode

[44:06] and this letters song's not very good take it Stuart

[44:09] take what I'm too busy reading a letter

[44:14] Dan is holding it and rubbing my legs because they're tired from working and

[44:19] running around and being a steward

[44:22] so your relationship is kind of a five-year-old and his dad type thing

[44:28] I didn't realize that at all

[44:31] inherently tiring to legs

[44:33] yeah well you see Stuart works standing up

[44:36] that's true

[44:37] uh wait do I have to sing another part

[44:39] it's fine

[44:40] it's an amaretto Stuart yes you do

[44:41] I think it's fine

[44:43] um

[44:44] chorus verse

[44:45] verse chorus verse

[44:46] so no

[44:47] on the first day of Stuart the steward gave to us

[44:49] this is an A B A A B C A B format

[44:55] yeah

[44:56] of a song

[44:57] um so

[44:58] it's a C R A P format

[45:01] walka walka

[45:04] Statler and Waldorf what do you think of that joke

[45:07] um so this first letter goes like this

[45:11] if I was more on my game I'd have a Statler and Waldorf joke for you there

[45:13] hey dudes

[45:15] did Stuart write this letter

[45:16] long time listener second time writer of a letter

[45:19] you may remember me as the person who has a crush on Tom Noonan slash Dan

[45:23] oh I remember that yeah

[45:24] you know Tom Noonan and Dan are not the same person right

[45:27] aren't we

[45:29] uh Tom Noonan how did you get here

[45:31] wow Francis

[45:32] I've been with you the whole time

[45:34] inside of you

[45:35] that's weird I don't like that

[45:37] it's a pretty great Tom Noonan slash Dan impression

[45:39] yeah

[45:40] well seeing

[45:41] that is what it would sound like if Tom Noonan and Dan got in that pod from the fly

[45:44] and combined into one being

[45:45] uh

[45:46] well seeing how both Dan and Mr. Noonan are married

[45:49] I'm still here looking for a boyfriend

[45:51] imagine my surprise when you guys mention

[45:53] that enemy of the podcast David Kaelin is single

[45:56] I hear he looks like a Jewish mountain man

[45:58] I'm very much into that

[46:00] so if you guys wanted to give my email to him

[46:02] I would be totally cool with that

[46:04] I don't know what his type is

[46:05] but if he's into ladies with blue hair and tattoos

[46:07] maybe we're meant to be

[46:09] sincerely Sarah last name withheld

[46:11] do you like sports

[46:12] yeah that's his type is sports

[46:14] I should probably mention

[46:15] are you a sport

[46:16] do you like to correct things

[46:18] I should probably mention I'm not Jewish

[46:20] so this sort of depends on whether or not he dates lapsed Catholics

[46:23] would Catholics have to sit in laps

[46:25] yeah

[46:27] just for the record

[46:28] David my brother

[46:29] is he involved with that

[46:30] does not just date Jewish girls

[46:32] as far as I know

[46:33] he's not involved with anyone

[46:34] but he never tells me these things

[46:35] and if he likes sports

[46:37] does he like women with blue hair and tattoos

[46:39] honestly the only thing I know

[46:40] that seems more like my thing

[46:42] the only thing I know he has opinions on is sports

[46:44] alright

[46:45] so if you are hockey, basketball, football or baseball

[46:48] are you a good listener

[46:50] because he is a talker

[46:52] yeah

[46:53] do you like sarcasm

[46:54] do you like having your balls busted

[46:56] for no good reason

[46:57] he is the Kaelin family curse I think

[46:59] of talkativeness

[47:00] cursed by a gypsy

[47:02] talk to me so much will you

[47:04] well from now on your generations to come

[47:06] will never stop talking

[47:10] oh my aching bones

[47:12] you wouldn't carry my bucket of water with me

[47:14] to my hut though

[47:15] and so I curse ye

[47:17] with a tongue that will never rest

[47:20] but thank you for writing in

[47:22] I have to admit

[47:23] because we have a backlog

[47:24] this email is a bit old

[47:25] maybe Sarah's

[47:26] she might be married by now

[47:27] conditions have changed

[47:28] but if not

[47:29] maybe we'll make a love connection out of this

[47:31] sure

[47:32] let me pull out my cupid colored arrow

[47:34] Dave why don't you write in

[47:35] and say if you're interested

[47:37] your cupid colored arrow

[47:39] why do you say that in a weird way

[47:41] because I'm tired

[47:43] my tongue is half asleep

[47:45] I sat on it by accident

[47:47] now it's all pins and needles

[47:48] for some reason that's not a good enough excuse for me

[47:51] because you do it all the time

[47:52] 24 hours a day

[47:53] that's true

[47:54] actually that made me think of a new Hellraiser character

[47:56] Pin Tongue

[47:57] he just looks like a normal guy

[47:58] until he opens his mouth

[47:59] you see his tongue

[48:00] he's got a bunch of pins on it

[48:01] in his tongue yeah

[48:02] he drives a pinto

[48:04] that's the only kind of beanie

[48:06] so

[48:07] I mean it's difficult

[48:08] he's got a bunch of pins

[48:09] his favorite old time Disney animator

[48:10] Pinto Colvig

[48:11] the voice of Goofy

[48:12] this next letter

[48:14] starts out

[48:15] good day Flophouse

[48:16] since coming across your podcast

[48:17] good day to you too

[48:18] in early spring

[48:19] I've been going through all the old episodes

[48:20] the other day

[48:21] I was driving to work

[48:22] when the app for the chaos experiment

[48:24] number 48

[48:25] it's an old one

[48:26] started up with a warning

[48:27] on the subpar audio quality of this episode

[48:29] I'm not sure what happened next

[48:31] I may have reached for my iPod

[48:32] to skip the app

[48:33] but the rest of the podcast continued

[48:35] and it was at 1.5x speed audio

[48:38] awesome

[48:39] my reverence for the Flophouse host plummeted

[48:41] as I thought

[48:42] these fucking idiots

[48:43] think their listeners are going to listen to them

[48:44] talk about a movie at 1.5x speed

[48:46] are you fucking kidding

[48:47] shitheads

[48:49] wow

[48:50] I turned the Flophouse off

[48:52] many hours later in the day

[48:54] I discovered the crappy new

[48:55] iOS 7 operating system

[48:56] has a playback speed button

[48:58] on the podcast app

[48:59] allowing the user to listen to a podcast

[49:01] at half

[49:02] normal

[49:03] 1.5x and 2x speed

[49:04] in case you want us to sound like this

[49:09] letters

[49:11] letters to the Flophouse

[49:13] let's make it last longer

[49:16] why on earth this feature exists

[49:18] is beyond my comprehension

[49:20] and I transferred my very rational disgust

[49:22] in the direction of the shit for brainiacs

[49:24] at Apple

[49:25] many apologies

[49:26] for momentarily doubting you fellas

[49:28] thanks, Kyle

[49:29] last name withheld

[49:30] no problem, Comicolor

[49:32] no thanks, Kyle

[49:34] for your doubting

[49:36] you got really angry at us

[49:38] you got really angry at us, buddy

[49:40] we can take it

[49:41] we're just voices in the ether

[49:43] whispers from the dark

[50:00] and i don't like it

[50:02] and fair enough

[50:04] but uh... thanks for continuing to give us a chance

[50:07] uh... moving on to some desperate to you

[50:10] all my uh... a great a prime beef

[50:13] shirt

[50:14] uh... the next letter

[50:17] goes little something like this i write to you from and me

[50:21] i write you from a hotel room in south carolina lying in a shitty bed

[50:26] and i guess thinking about you

[50:28] poor quality bed not a bed that's

[50:30] full of shit right

[50:32] i don't think she can't he or she cannot respond

[50:35] letter tell me

[50:37] new information letter explain

[50:39] the three of you and some guest hosts kept me company for my thirteen hour road trip

[50:43] from massachusetts yesterday

[50:45] and i thought i'd thank you

[50:46] feel free to chip in for gas money

[50:48] anywho

[50:49] in the stretch of episodes

[50:50] you realize we weren't actually in the car right that was just our voices

[50:53] trapped

[50:54] as if a witch had

[50:56] put us into a magic mirror of some kind

[50:58] uh... a lot of stuff

[51:02] uh... anywho

[51:03] in the stretch of episodes

[51:05] from the classic x-men origins wolverine and the jonathan travolta vehicle from

[51:09] parish with love jonathan travolta

[51:12] the discussion of best supporting actress winners came up

[51:15] i can't remember which episode but essentially dan said that monique winning

[51:18] the oscar in

[51:19] two thousand nine would usher in an area and sorry an era

[51:23] of supporting actress winners with apostrophes in their name area of

[51:27] supporting actresses

[51:28] we have built a town for them and we don't have to deal with them anymore

[51:32] that's racist

[51:33] and now

[51:35] support and supporting actresses

[51:38] and now history shows

[51:39] how prescient dan truly is

[51:41] for low in this year

[51:42] a mere four years after a baby throwing performance by monique

[51:46] the best supporting actress winner was

[51:48] lupita

[51:49] in ongo in yongo

[51:51] uh... this is not the issue that you've done it bad enough to keep going

[51:55] so good on you they're only going to dig deeper on this all my best brian lesson

[51:59] even spelled out he said in yongo

[52:05] but the phonetic spelling in there for you know that you still have to do with

[52:08] it

[52:09] so um... i guess the point is letters donate to the foundation for dan's tongue

[52:16] hi there's just two dollars a day do you have trouble saying ordinary words

[52:20] in the course of your ordinary day you may have danced with him or dts

[52:25] suffers of dts often don't know they have it because

[52:28] they don't listen to themselves and they talk

[52:30] it must be pointed out to them by their asshole friends who make fun of them all

[52:33] the time

[52:34] so please make fun of your friends or if you have dts let your friends make fun

[52:38] of you and if you have a dts that's something else entirely

[52:43] that

[52:44] you know what you look at me when you said that do you know because you knew

[52:47] what it was i will of course but there was no reason for you to bring that kind

[52:50] of a guarantee into this podcast about a movie about old men wanting to have sex

[52:54] with young women

[52:55] uh... so moving on

[52:58] this uh... next letter

[53:02] uh... first off a hearty congratulations all around for what appears to be an

[53:05] explosion of in podcast popularity you guys are the best and deserve to have

[53:09] or is that so that they can

[53:11] and deserve to have cat on a hot ten ten roof

[53:14] ranks right up there in the annals of radio plays with wells war of the world

[53:19] and i'm sure elliott's sultry tones also caused widespread panic in new jersey

[53:24] oh yeah

[53:25] second

[53:26] that's and to the heart of the matter this is a hoax where they thought a southern

[53:29] woman somewhere like ten ten

[53:32] people were just running out into the streets so horrifying and chaotic

[53:38] it defies logic the government they fell apart they can't help us

[53:42] second and to the heart of the matter

[53:44] as a woman who dates other women

[53:46] i've waited with somewhat bated breath for the arrival of blues the warmest

[53:49] color and its potential for a not shitty slash entirely unbelievable slash

[53:54] somewhat skin crawling depiction of the intimacy between my people

[53:58] while my partner and i differed

[54:01] uh... while my partner and i differed on the intricacies of the film itself

[54:05] narrative style pacing et cetera

[54:07] we agree that it is an achingly beautiful movie

[54:10] but in many ways the flack that the movie has received since can

[54:13] regarding the sex scenes

[54:15] uh... kind of like a dog

[54:17] i think it's actually pronounced can't

[54:19] regarding the sex scenes kind of prepped us

[54:21] it's pronounced canes as in a selection of canes

[54:24] kind of prepped us to feel alienated before we even took our seats

[54:28] granted most people who see the movie probably won't chew on their feelings

[54:31] about it quite as much

[54:32] just because statistically most people who see the movie won't be on the

[54:36] queer spectrum

[54:37] but man without the countless printed back and forth about the sex

[54:41] she and i probably would have either just been pleased at a more realistic

[54:44] stab at big screen lady banging

[54:46] or felt the general vague discomfort one feels in a theater full of strangers

[54:50] watching actors go at it

[54:52] in a perfect world we would watch movies with fresh eyes and obviously we're all

[54:55] swayed to a degree by critics or friends

[54:57] but the coverage of this movie has been so outrageous and had such a marked

[55:00] effect on how i watched it

[55:01] but i was wondering if the hype around the film whether controversy or acclaim or

[55:04] anything really

[55:05] has genuinely altered your enjoyment of it

[55:08] whether it's you spending forty five minutes waiting for an infamous scene

[55:12] like how i was warned repeatedly about the subtextual ambiguity of the rape

[55:15] scene in the original straw dogs

[55:17] which takes you out of the film as soon as that scene actually occurs

[55:21] uh... or if you've gone in really really ready for some lauded film to blow you

[55:25] away and sort of convince yourself that it was better than your gut told you

[55:28] like sorry dan, rachel getting married

[55:31] either way thank you gentlemen for lighting my world every other saturday

[55:34] signed sappho she didn't have a last name with hold

[55:37] i mean

[55:38] well thank you for listening and we appreciate the compliments for telling me

[55:42] how i feel about rachel getting married what no she's just saying how she feels about it

[55:45] i thought that she was saying that i would convince myself

[55:49] i think you recommended rachel getting married and she's saying you're a jerk face

[55:52] yeah that was those are the words dumb ass jerk face uh... butt for brains

[55:57] that was what she said

[55:58] wow she kept it pretty clean she was saying that it was a movie she had heard great things

[56:01] about but in her gut didn't like it so she's apologizing that she didn't like it maybe you were the

[56:05] words that she had heard

[56:07] i apologize to you and she thinks you're a turd i have to say that uh... misunderstanding usually i'm not swayed as

[56:12] much before i see a movie by

[56:14] what people have said about whether they like it

[56:17] by what i expect the movie to be from like the marketing materials

[56:21] or what i expect the experience to be like and often a movie that

[56:24] i should give i should be more open-minded with

[56:27] i don't like it because it doesn't live up to what i thought it was going to be which is not

[56:30] fair to the movie

[56:31] but uh... with blue's the worst color i haven't seen it yet

[56:33] but i feel like i'd be more tainted by all the stories about

[56:36] how horrible it was to work with the director and how the two stars felt really

[56:41] tortured by him

[56:43] uh... i've actually read very little about it

[56:46] other than you know all the stuff dan said about it

[56:49] so

[56:51] i'm looking forward to going into it with relatively fresh eyes

[56:56] like uh... like a powder

[56:57] i know powder was uh...

[56:59] it was just like a guy with

[57:01] yeah but i thought he was like a homunculus or something

[57:05] totally fresh his mother was struck by lightning

[57:07] which made him into a bald albino superman

[57:11] i can't think of a really great example of this off the top of my head

[57:14] but i do feel like

[57:17] i often fall into the trap

[57:19] of

[57:20] expecting too much from a movie

[57:24] uh... based on uh... you know uh... it being very well regarded

[57:29] there are there's certainly times when like if a movie is hyped up too much in

[57:32] terms of

[57:33] it's a classic or something like that or it's it's amazing

[57:37] you have i feel like sometimes i have to like

[57:39] settle myself before i see it and be like let me just watch this as if

[57:43] as if it just started now

[57:45] i remember i feel like in this last year

[57:48] i remember watching the screener of her and being like

[57:51] okay i like this

[57:52] i don't well that was yeah that was a movie where i read a lot a lot about how

[57:55] amazing it was when i watched it

[57:57] i think it was more that it was not the movie i was interested in seeing

[58:00] and so i was like uh... this is there's a certain point that movie where it goes

[58:04] down a very i feel like

[58:06] traditional expected role uh... or

[58:09] not role um... route

[58:11] and uh... i i kind of expected to keep the

[58:14] inventiveness of the early scenes throughout the film and just didn't do

[58:17] that

[58:19] but you were you were talking about like uh...

[58:22] uh... godzilla i mean which you haven't seen i still haven't seen it yet but i've seen the original godzilla

[58:27] but i like that which i mean the nineteen ninety eight version why are

[58:30] there other versions

[58:32] i'd like to know godzilla

[58:34] i neither loved it nor hated it but i feel like there's so many people out

[58:37] there who either love that movie they're like velociraptors the sequel to baby genius is

[58:41] baby godzilla

[58:43] they got big diapers godzilla has fat there's very few people in the

[58:47] middle ground except for dan

[58:49] it's very lonely there

[58:50] somebody joined him in the middle ground

[58:53] but i i'm kind of surprised that people either loved or hated that movie so much

[58:56] because

[58:58] i thought that that movie was

[59:00] a good version of an old style monster movie like it was a like it was nothing

[59:05] totally new

[59:07] but it was a more classic

[59:09] monster film

[59:10] than other films and and you were saying that you think there's probably because of the

[59:13] way it was marketed where it

[59:15] that movie had such great marketing that it promised something

[59:19] crazy that maybe it didn't deliver i haven't seen it yet either but i feel like

[59:23] every criticism i read is that

[59:26] like not enough godzilla boring and that that's not enough to turn me off of the movie

[59:32] yeah i feel the same i haven't seen it but i feel the same way but i do feel like there are movies like

[59:35] godzilla's trailers were fantastic

[59:38] and maybe it falls in the same trap that prometheus fell into which i think is the

[59:41] example i used when i was talking to you where those trailers that trailer was

[59:45] fantastic the original prometheus trailer

[59:47] is maybe the best trailer i can think of since the original alien trailer which

[59:51] is maybe the best trailer ever cut for a movie

[59:53] the trailer for alien is so scary

[59:56] on its own and so suspenseful and tells no lies about the

[1:00:00] movie and everything that's promised in that trailer comes to fruition in the movie whereas

[1:00:04] prometheus one they had that stupid mystery aspect to it where they're like maybe we're

[1:00:08] not going to tell you what's in this movie but the trailer was so good and the movie was like fun

[1:00:13] i had i enjoyed it a lot but it's nothing no great shakes you know that i think people instead of

[1:00:17] being like that was all right we're like that's so i'll put that on that was no great shakes

[1:00:23] um but uh very quick last letter of the evening hello floppers i was told you like it when

[1:00:31] listeners keep their letters short regards billy last name withheld oh hey thanks billy so thanks

[1:00:36] billy wilder everybody yeah the late billy wilder showing the wits when was he supposed to get here

[1:00:44] one of the greatest screenwriters of classic hollywood but uh now we move on to our final

[1:00:52] segment of the evening okay final judgment

[1:00:57] because finals what do you think of those letters

[1:01:04] i give them good good letters yeah they're good yeah they're great letters yeah

[1:01:08] i was just testing you guys for writing in i'm sorry that we didn't have better show good night

[1:01:12] everybody no no no there's one last segment what's the last segment dan uh where we recommend movies

[1:01:16] that we actually liked um unlike uh las vegas even though i kind of like las vegas but not

[1:01:23] like i like the movie that i'm going to recommend which is uh i had this pleasure of seeing um stop

[1:01:30] making sense the talking heads concert film directed by jonathan demme jonathan demme more

[1:01:37] at uh the brooklyn academy of music it's like a small version of amour a re-release uh in a larger

[1:01:45] release soon but um this brooklyn academy of music screening had actually jonathan demme and another

[1:01:52] producer there to answer a q a you recommend seeing stop making sense when the director

[1:01:56] no i recommend seeing stop making sense it's qualified um i recommend seeing it on a big

[1:02:02] screen because this is not only the bigger the better projected on the moon this is not only

[1:02:08] my favorite concert film and i think inarguably one of the best concert films ever made

[1:02:14] it is one of my favorite movies which was driven home seeing it on a big screen with big sound

[1:02:21] where um after every uh number that that talking heads did people would burst into applause as if

[1:02:29] the people on stage could actually hear them appreciate their uh music making and um and you

[1:02:36] stood up and you said you fools it's on pill don't you see it was like you're being taken for a pack

[1:02:41] no idiots they're playing a laugh on you what do you think this is like the great train robbery

[1:02:46] that train is not going to run you down no but it was uh it was good it was it was great and uh

[1:02:53] one of the great things about stop making sense is it's just a beautifully constructed stage show

[1:02:58] it's where you really see david burns uh background as an art student and has already

[1:03:02] staging any and any giant robot zombies come out on stage suit that's so you're looking for more

[1:03:09] of an iron maiden yeah like an eddie type figure but it's also who they then like fight but when

[1:03:14] he's on stage yeah he like lifts up adrian smith while he does a wiki guitar solo i'll i'll wrap

[1:03:19] this up my least favorite part of any video any youtube video of an iron maiden show is when the

[1:03:24] giant eddie comes out and it's like what is this the six flags iron maiden show whatever dude shut

[1:03:29] up i'll wrap this up very quickly but i do want to say that it was also there's something kind of

[1:03:34] bittersweet to watching stop making sense because you you really feel the joy that all of these

[1:03:40] performers are having playing music with one another and you know how short-lived that joy

[1:03:45] is going to be and how uh talking heads are all going to end up hating each other very shortly

[1:03:50] thereafter yeah and not play together again other than do so much talking amongst themselves anymore

[1:03:57] from their heads but uh without making sense watch it uh on dvd if you can't see it any other

[1:04:05] way but uh see the re-release if you can and if jonathan demme is there go for it yeah

[1:04:11] ask him some questions i would like to recommend a movie also by a director named demme but not

[1:04:17] jonathan demme no really jacques demme director of the umbrellas of cherbourg jacques demme more

[1:04:23] yeah jacques brother of jonathan demme more this is not a music film though uh that i'm going to

[1:04:28] recommend this is one of his earliest films i think it's his first full length and it's called

[1:04:34] lola and it's from 1961 and it stars anouk amy and a couple of other actors now this lola was

[1:04:42] she a showgirl uh she was a dancer yeah and she sings one song in it uh about her stage character

[1:04:49] lola uh and it's a french new wave movie that's like not one of the big major development ones but

[1:04:56] it's a very fun touching movie about a bunch of characters this dancer who has a son and who is

[1:05:03] still in love with the man who left her years ago with this son but who she doesn't expect ever to

[1:05:08] come back an old childhood friend of hers who comes back now and has a crush on her a single

[1:05:13] mother who has a teenage daughter uh who both are looking for connections with men in their own way

[1:05:21] one out of loneliness the other out of curiosity and an american sailor from chicago who is kind

[1:05:27] of in a casual relationship with lola but is is kind of floating through his time in paris

[1:05:35] or i don't remember it's paris or it's a it's a it's a coastal town i think i can't remember

[1:05:39] but uh floating through his time in france and just kind of interacting with these other

[1:05:44] characters and it's not the characters intersect a lot but it's not super plot heavy but it's very

[1:05:51] fun at times and also just charming at other times and very touching at other times and the

[1:05:55] photography in it is this beautiful kind of straightforward early 1960s black and white

[1:06:01] photography that's really crisp uh with a lot of great angles and i really enjoyed a lot so lola

[1:06:07] so a french new wave movie and a movie about a new wave band stewart what do you have what new

[1:06:11] wave are you doing and it better be surf nazis must die the wave i'm doing uh so it's a wave

[1:06:17] of blood in a way okay that sounds scary uh so this is a movie from 2010 uh it's a movie called

[1:06:25] steak land uh it's a somewhat qualified i like the sound of this place it sounds delicious

[1:06:31] it sounds uh this is kind of a qualified recommendation um so this is that i didn't

[1:06:36] like this movie well this is a movie that feels very much like a promising start to a young uh

[1:06:43] horror or suspense director's career um the director jim michael just recently released

[1:06:51] a movie called cold in july which is based on a joe lansdale novel and it's getting some good press

[1:06:55] he also is involved in what looks like a tv series based on the happen leonard series of

[1:07:01] joe lansdale's short stories which is exciting um and from uh steak land it that sounds like

[1:07:07] a decent fit it's a movie it's basically a post-apocalyptic movie where instead of your

[1:07:14] traditional like zombie apocalypse you have a vampire apocalypse and it follows uh a young boy

[1:07:20] who also is the narrator like a i guess a teenager who uh who travels around with a hardened vampire

[1:07:28] slayer as they go from settlement to settlement uh trying to head north to uh to new eden

[1:07:37] which is a like a promised land and along the way they run into religious fanatics

[1:07:42] multiple horrible vampire situations um and other things and uh there's some great stuff about like

[1:07:50] there's some great uh like you know civilization in ruins but hope still rises from the ashes type

[1:07:56] things uh there's some great stuff with uh the evil religious cultists that are led by michael

[1:08:04] oh i don't remember his name in an interesting terrible evil role michael moore um now the the

[1:08:12] evil vampires played by the guy who played uh the lead uh the the lead bald guy from fringe what are

[1:08:19] those those bald guys oh yeah the strangers yeah the strangers or whatever those guys uh fringes

[1:08:25] yeah they call them fringes call them surreys with the fringe on top and uh i mean the the

[1:08:31] there's a couple issues like there's uh there's a like a climax that's a little strange and feels a

[1:08:36] little forced and there's a little bit too much narration from the uh the hero who is played by

[1:08:43] the annoying younger brother from revenge of the nerds if only uh but no i i think it's good it's

[1:08:52] got some great little uh some great practical effects and there's some genuine scary moments

[1:08:56] so if you like if you like vampire movies and you like uh post-apocalyptic stuff i'd recommend it

[1:09:02] all right so guys it's time to get out of this sweat-filled room this is a very hot room that

[1:09:09] we're in yeah dan when did we decide to record these in the sauna at the friars club

[1:09:14] we're recording just slowly go up and up my new apartment without air conditioning so um

[1:09:20] well guys i say you can imagine our flesh glistening and if we bump into each other

[1:09:26] we'll stick for a second maybe uh we're saying we'll peel apart separate peel apart like some

[1:09:32] bubble tape six feet of bubble gum for you not them so i say hey guys i had a good time

[1:09:40] in 58 years let's reunite and do this same podcast in las vegas sounds good i thought it was

[1:09:46] lust vegas lust vegas coming soon to a where pleasure is paid premium cable site

[1:09:53] hold on because because pin tongue is the leader no pin tongue is not part of

[1:10:00] His favorite playwright is Harold Pinter.

[1:10:02] Yeah, Harold Pintung, yeah.

[1:10:06] All right, well, this is Devolving Chaos.

[1:10:10] For the podcast, I've been Dan McCoy.

[1:10:12] That's been Elliot Kaelin.

[1:10:13] Over there is Stuart Wellington, and he will always

[1:10:16] be Stuart Wellington forever.

[1:10:17] Good night, everyone.

[1:10:19] Oh, I'm clearly Johnny Storm.

[1:10:25] I thought I was more of a Ben Grimm type, but that's OK.

[1:10:28] No, you're more of a Chris Evans, more of a slapstick.

[1:10:35] But that carries over pretty well on a podcast.

[1:10:39] So Dan, we're going to start this, or what's the?

[1:10:42] Let's set the night on fire.

[1:10:45] Because we are young, you know that.

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